The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Fear of the unknown leaves adoptees paralyzed in a bewildered state of trepidation, quietude, and foreboding angst...openmouthed, impotent and powerless to act… — Judith Land Copy Share Image
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village… — Parley P. Pratt Copy Share Image
[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my… — William Blake Copy Share Image
With 'Scratch,' you create computer programs by snapping together graphical programming blocks, much like LEGO bricks, without any of the obscure syntax… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
MySpace is somehow more welcoming than Facebook. And Twittering, I just... Ugh. I like having radio silence. I think radio silence is… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
“ Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Chinese dumpling and noodle trainspotters know that the best versions usually come from obscure hole-in-the-wall joints where personal space and flattering lighting… — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
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